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Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House - Rilegato

Speck, Frank G.

 
9781512813791: Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House
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ISBN 10: 1512813796 ISBN 13: 9781512813791
Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1950

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During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution. In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the Midwinter Ceremony, the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of life and health, performed in long houses on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario.

Collaborating with Alexander General (Deskáheh), the noted Cayuga chief, Speck describes vividly the rites and dances giving thanks to all spiritual entities. Of special interest are the medicine societies that not only prescribed herbs but used powerfully evocative masks in treating the underlying causes of sickness.

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Editore
Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1950
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1512813796
ISBN 13 
9781512813791
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
216
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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